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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933.

HONG KONG WATER SHOPPERS'

SUPPLY

Sir H. Pollock Complains Of Wastage.

ABERDEEN VALLEY SCHEME

At yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council. Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, during the consideration of a resolution to spend $58,470.20 this

WEST END STAGE "DEBUTANTES"

THE CHINA MAIL.

ALARMING

EXPERIENCE villagers Play In Drama

Festival. Bargain Hunters Gassed

In Nice Store.

FRACTICAL JOKER OR RIVALS?!

ĮVARIED PROGRAMME AT SCALA

London

at the

real

To-Day's Short Story.

Dr. Abboul's Mystery Patient

THE NIGHT NURSE'S、 STORY

As Told To PETER CHEYNEY.

ALWAYS' wanted to be a he would meet me there and give A Staffordshire woman, aged

nursc. It seemed to me to be me my instructions. Paris. 179, was one of the 100 village|

I got my kit together, changed a profession where one might see The amazing spectacle of hundreds women who. performed

a little of the world and people, into uniform and went round im-

The dat I could not bear the idea of almediately.

WAS, ap year on the Aberdeen Valley water of faanionably attired women wep-Scala Theatre recently.

They were taking part in the

ове

and scheme, made a plea for more care.ing bitterly, with handkerchiefs to

humdrum existence as a secre-parently, an expensive Institutes' Drama

some- there seemed to be two or three ful conservation of the Colony's their eyes, completely held up traffic Women's

in a thoroughfare in Nice recently. Festival and for, most of them tar or a governess or water supplies.

servants about the place. thing like that. was their first ap A new store, which had been at least it

After a few minutes Dr. Abboul The resolution, moved by the

seiged by an army of housewives pearance on a West End stage.did my training in a big hos-

Не London. When I was arrived.

W&S pital in

a suave and Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr.

anxious to obtain bargains. Many of them, indeed, had never, trained I stayed on for a year as charming man of about forty-fire, M. J. Breast) was 95 follows:-

a ward sister. Then I began to be liked him at once. That this Council approves of the thronged at about tea-time by a before acted even on a

This is not a very difficult cane, additional expenditure of $58.487.20 when suddenly pandemonium was

closely pressing eager mass of people istage

All of them, however, had bored with the everyday sameness

of the hospital routine. Luckily. [nurse," he said. "Mr.whom on the Aberdeen Valley Water caused by a gas whose fumes swiftly been rehearing at home for many at this time, a young doctor who you are going to nurse, will, I am Scheme during the financial year alled the vast building with its many months, making their

own had been a third-year student when afraid, not last very long. He is I joined the hospital' as a proba-suffering from a rather remote A future John and shall meanwhile. Cries were raised as the shoppers The plays they chose were tioner began to be a successful disease caused by a tropical germ, be charged as an advance from the made à frantic dash towards the very varied and ranged from specialist in Harley-street.

He and all we can do is to keep him surplus halances of the Colony.

exits holding handkerchiefs and Clifford Bax's "The Poetasters suggested to me that if I cared to comfortable. The heart is very Mr. Breen said: The resolu- dresses to their mouths. Many of of Ispahan" to an act from The leave the hospital and start as a weak and he is running a consider tion, standing in my name. is in-them dropped their treasures bar-Tempest" and Laurence House-free-lance" nurse he could put able temperature. I'm afraid that tended to regularise the excess of gains in their hurried stampede to-man's The Bride Feast"

lota of cases in my way.

he will not last out the week. expenditure incurred in 1932. onwards the doors.

But in spite of the strange-

I did so, and began really to en-[You'd better come and have a look, the Aberdeen Valler Water Scheme. A crowd collected on the pavementness of the West End Theatre joy life. I am a bit of a student at him." over the quota allocated for that where the women, a number of after the local parish hall, they of human nature and I had ample I went into a large and beauti-

whom were seized with terrible fits all appeared to be enjoying the opportunities to study it. Resolution of coughing, were excitedly discuss-thrill of making their debut on After a year I began to take ny patient. He was an extremely on Decem-ling their alarming experiences. the London stage.-Reuter

$347.000. Orders was soon restored and the

1932. which sum shall be met from

year."

This sum, was, by a

of this Council taken

ber 10. 1931. fixed at

stories.

The actual expenditure, however, busy thoroughfare resumed its nor- amounted to $405,487.20,

an ex-mal appearance.

cess of $58,487.20 over the quota Mystery at present surrounds the approved.

$33:509.25 of the ex-cause of the contretemps though a Ceas Was due to the work proceeded with more rapidly

costumes and sets.

Personal Pars.

being number of people were expressing Scott were also new arrivals for the

than the belief that the gas had been Colony by the sa. Conte Rosso. had been anticipated. and the spread by friends of some of the balance, $24.977.95. represents the numerous rival stores who

were

fully furnished bedroom and saw

night cases only. There was a good-looking man in the thirties. certain amount of business acumen He certainly looked very L

in this. Cases that require night nursing are usually fairly serious and the nursing fees are higher.

Mr. A. Kane, Mr. J. and Mr. C. As I am a person who requires very little sleep I managed to en- joy most of the day; get some sleep in the late afternoon and 31r. K. Jenner, captain of the evening be ready for my work at cost of administration, which it was jealous of the younger firm's suc-ly, M. C. A. "B" Water-polo team, eight o'clock at night. subsequently decided Khould be [cess.

was a passenger for Shanghai by I can tell you a story which I charged to the work.

What is more likely. however, is that is was the work of some prad-Hong Kong last night.

the ss. Conte Rosso which left think will amuse you. I had been

"Wasteful Policy."

The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock.—— Sir, as the owner of a house over-Į. looking the Aberdeen Reservoir. I am very much dismayed to find a great deal of water, which is the overflow of that Reservoir into

what was formerly known as the Paper Mill Reservoir, has been allowed to run to waste.

[tical joker.--Reuter.

RECKLESS DRIVING

Driver Of Private Car Fined.

Mrs. Helen Seybold and Masters George R. and Albert H. Seybold, arrived in the Colony this morning

by the s.s. President Monroe. been recommended to use my ser-

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vices by Doctor

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Unseen Collection," by Stefan Zweig,

"You might take the tempera-

disengaged for some little time when one evening my telephone bell rang. I did not know the ture, nurse," said the doctor.

I put the thermometer in the caller. He said that his name was Doctor Abboul, and that be had patient's mouth and then, at the doctor's request, went off to get whom some hot water from the bathroom. I found the bathroom, got a can Mr. Julius Brittlebank, the knew very well. "American Marco Polo" as he is I suppose in the ordinary course of hot water and returned in the known the world over, is a phsen-of events I should have looked him direction of the bedroom. I moved ger on the s.s. President Monroe up in the Medical List, but having very quickly and quietly, and the

regard to the fact that he mention- door of the bedroom was ajar.

I ed the other man I took it for

was amazed, therefore, to This notice as I approached that the doctor had removed the thermo

1 understand from the Hon. Prosecuting Li Hing Sing driver bound for Marseilles. Director of Public Works, to whom af private car No. 626 for danger.

He and was holding the bulb about an

I have spoken on this matter. that ous driving. Sergeant Fryer. at the Returning from # holiday in granted that he was OK. that may possibly be due to the Central Magistracy this morning, Japan, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. R. Dun-was foolish of me. fact that the Government is clean-said that the defendant overtook can, arrived to-day on the Empress He went on to say that he want. meter from the patient's mouth ing up the silt at the bottom of the and passed a tram on the corner of of Japan. Mr. Duncan is connect-jed me to take a case at once. Reservoir, but I do submit that it Arsenal Street and Queen's Roaded with the Asiatic Petroleum Com-asked that I should go immediate eighth of an inch above the flame is very wasteful at the present East, nearly colliding with a car pany, Hong Kong.

ly to a block of flats in the Ken-of a cigarette-lighter: time when we have a considerable which was approaching in the op-

sington district, and told me that overflow to allow it to run to waste.posite direction.

"I venture to suggest 10 the Government that, as we are some- ) thing like fourteen inches of rain

pursue, and I

Mr. S. A. Lopes, a director of the The defendant pleaded guilty and 'firm of Lopes and Alves, returned was fined $30.

to the Colony on the Empress of

A Wanchai Offence. A taxicab driver, Au Cheong Fai,

Japan to-day after a short visit to Shanghai.

Dr. J. Š. Dykes,

a well known local Dental Surgeon arrived here! on the Empress of Japan to-day.

FALSE PRETENCES.

Passenger Defrauded On Local Steamer.

Pretending to be a member of

I coughed loudly, stopped for a moment and then entered the bed- room. When. I arrived the thermo- meter was back in the patient's

mouth, and when he took it out it

was registering somewhere in the

region of 105 degrees-naturally!

"The temperature is 105, doc- tor," I said.

He nodded.

below the average, this is a very was fined $20 at the Central Magis- wasteful policy to

tracy this morning for dangerous strongly urge that the Government driving in Wanchai. stop the cleaning out of the bottom

Sergeant Fryer stated that the of the Paper 3 Reservoir and defendant drove the taxi from John-|

"I thought so," he said, and that the water which overflows ston Road to the Garden Theatre, Mr. W. R. Mowll, Manager of the compradore's staff, Leung lushook his head. from the Aberdeen Reservoir be along Hennesy Road, at an

He gave me some general -left in the Paper Mill Reservoir age speed of 36 m.p.h.

aver-Reuter's, Limited, Shanghai, arriv-an unemployed Chinese, succeeded

2 instructions about the patient, but ed on the Empress of Japan to-day.jin obtaining a sum of $3 from and Impounded instead of wasted, The defendant. pleaded guilty on a visit to the Colony.

passenger on board the “Sai On"linsisted that he must not be dis The Hon. Director of Public and said that he was hurrying to

last night.

turbed, and after a little while went Works is anticipated that the fulfil an order.

return Magistracy this morning with ob-next morning.

He was charged at the Central off, saying that he would quantity of removal of silt from

taining the

the lower Reservoir will be com-

pleted within the next week or two,

after which the lower Reservoir

Ma dada ja

Mr. and Mrs. G. 4. V. Hall, ar rived to-day on the Empress of Japan. Mr. Hall, who is partner!

money by false pre- A few minutes afterwards, while of the firm of Hall and Hall, has tences and was sentenced to six I was washing my hands in the

will be used for impounding water. CHOPPERS USED IN spent a short holiday in Japan.

If we have heavy rains in the mean-

time we shall close down our works.

and make use of the rainfall from the catchment area.

The resolution was agreed to

KOWLOON CABARET

FINED.

FIGHT.

Two Market Coolies

Fined.

Two large butcher's choppers

bathroom, the telephone bell rang. weeks' hard labour.

Lau Cheung, a watchman on It was quite near to the bathroom, board the "Sal On,” noticed the man and I could hear the conversation Mr. F. R. Smith, a director of demanding fares from the passeng-between the caller! and the maid the Far East Aviation Co. Ltd., ac-ers and had him arrested. companied by his wife, left Hong Kong last night for Shanghai by the as. Conte Rosso

-

Mr. "Jimmy" Pote-Hunt, well

"Noise Calculated To July 26. Both men received in-.. Conte Rosso.

Disturb."

TWO DRIVING IN ONE CAR.

Driving.

who answered it.

"Mr.

la terribly

the maid say. Imadame." I heard |"No, madame, he is not expected to live. Oh yes, he is quite con-

tell the doctor." scious. Very well, madame. I'll

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“ZAMBEZI ” WIGHT PASSES.

Early Pioneer In Africa.

FASCINATING CAREER,

Dar es Salaam.

MAN 'IN WOLF'S CLOTHING.

Sheep Stealer Adopts Novel Ruse.

KILLED BY PEASANTS.

were used by two Central Market known amateur jockey, accompan- $25 Fine For Dangerous stall-coolies, Wong Chol and Huified by bis wife, were also passen-

I was beginning to be intrigued San, in a quarrel which occurred on gera for Shanghai last night by the

with this case, 1 felt that there! was something decidedly fishy {juries and were treated at the Gov-

Wong Sang, driver private car about it. At two o'clock in the ernment Civil. Hospital:

The forthcoming marriage is an-No. 1720, who was summoned at the morning I went and looked at my They were charged this morning nounced between Tan Eng Hool, Central Police Court this morning patient. He was sleeping soundly. Mr. M. da Silva, proprietor of at the Central Police Court with banker, of No. 18, Devon Road, Kow-with not having full control of his I got my thermometer and slipped the Casanova Dancing Institute, in fghting and were fined $20 each, loon Tong, and Julia Yau of No. 1. car, was stated by Sergeant Fryer it carefully under his armpit in his native Newington, the Edin-near the village of Ciuciulea, in Bes Hankow Road, Kowloon," was fined and bound over. In a sum of $50 Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon $25, at the Kowloon Magistracy jeach to be of good behaviour forį, yesterday on a summons for caus-one year.

to have allowed a young lady sitting beside him to steer the car while the defendant used the foot controls.

The incident occurred on the Repulse Bay Road on July 23,

The defendant pleaded guilty and a fine, of $25 was imposed.

The Magistrate remarked that it The forthcoming marriage of was'a dangerous practice.

The forthcoming marriage be- ing or permitting to be caused, a: Mr. Wynne-Jones, the Magistrate, tween Stanley Lee of No. 7, Glenealy noise by which Mr. H. J. Luhring, remarked that the choppers were Road, Hong Kong and Miss Lai of 32 Hankow Road, next door to extremely dangerous instruments Chung-of of No. 63, Robinson Road, the Casanova Institute, was dis-with which to pettle a small quarrel. Hong Kong, is announced, turbed.

Mr. R. II. Butters, the Magis- trate, remarked that the noise was calculated to disturb or annoy any reasonable. normal man.

Mr. Leq D'Almada, Senior, was counsel for the defendant.

TO-DAY'S WEATHER

Louis Wagner of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Bosalie Burnham Nor-

ton, now en route to the Colony, is

The Royal Observatory reports announced.

OBSTRUCTION OF PASSAGE.

His température was normal!

Bucharest,

"Zambezi" Wight is dead.

Spring lambs began to disappear Unknown perhaps at home, even in alarming numbers from fields

-burgh suburb, but throughout thou- sarabia.s

to

Mr. T. Tase, for eight years Gen- Car Parked In Alleyway, I am inclined to go on helped to lay the line from Beira in ground, still. It was not until then

that the typhoon is crossing Korea || on a N.N.E. track.

Fair generally, with local show-eral Passenger Agent of the N.Y.E.

I then went to the telephone and sands of square miles of East-Cen- The pensanta appealed to the au- rang my friend Dr., who tral Africa, “Zamberzi" Wight was thorities for help but the lambs was the person supposed to have known to three and four genera-kept on disapearing. recommended · Dr. Abboul. He had tions of pioneers.

Then they organised themselves never heard of him!

"Zambezi" had been 38-years in into guards to discover the wolf and Next morning when' Dr. Abbaal Africa. Thirty years ago, he was kill him. arrived I tackled him at once. in command of one of the river

During the night, it is reported, I do not believe that there is boats carrying passengers and goods they heard the bleating of lambs anything at all the matter with the up the Zambezi through. Portuguese coming towards them. They could patient, doctor," I said, “and I am territory Nyasaland. When sea a dark bukit must be the woLL also informed by Dr. - that times and conditions changed, høj

So they pounced, and in a few he has never heard of you. I don't left the river for the railroad and minutes the dark shape lay upon the

with this case."

to Rhodesia and Nyasaland, traver that the guards found that they had He smiled rather whimsically, sing in his work much of the counted a man and not a wolf. era and moderate south-easterly in Hong Kong, left yesterday by the Resulting from a complaint by "Look bere, nurse," he said, “you try that is associated with the name Afterwards it was discovered that winds, la the forecast for to-day. "Chichibu Marn" for Kobe, on the Tester Beauty Palour, Lo Yam might as well know something of of Dr. Livingstone.

the dead thief had started a little transfer. Mr. Tase's successor in Man, driver of private car No. 797 the truth. I'm not a doctor at all, In his time, he was engineer on sheep ferm of his own-but miles A terrible tragedy has shattered Among the passengers of the Hong Kong is Mr. S. Takagi, who was summoned at the Central Police and you're perfectly right when the river and the railway, coffee away down the valley, where no ade the romance of an old couple living E. & A. liner "Nellore," leaving for errived from Japan last week. Court this morning for causing ob you say that there is nothing at all planter, stock farmer, gold digger, was likely to see what he was doing. in a Lithuanian-village-in-the-pro Australia to-day, Jr. T, Dollard,

struction in the alleyway between wrong with the patient. But I tell and soldier 1ghting in the South Renter vince of Rossienak,

representative of Messrs P. E. Mr. P. A. Cox, Asalatant Orien- Kayamally Building and the Aala-yon this quite candidly: I honest African and Great Wars. His tra The wife aged 75 has killed her Scriverior & Co. of Sydney. Mr, tal Manager of the Canadian Fach-tic Patroleum Company's Building. ly believe that unless we go un vels and his personality made him B0-year-old husband with an axe be-Dollard played a prominent part in fic' Steamships, Limited. Shanghai. He pleaded guilty and fined $5. with this deception for a day or one of the best known and best like cause she was jealous of the atten- arranging the splendid display of arrived here to-day on the Empress, it was stated that it was peces two there will be something wrong ed men throughout a vast area of Rhodeals, old stages will pass tions he was paying to a pretty young Australian products at the recent of Japan. Mr. Cox is on a visitisary to mount the footpath in or with him, I believe he will be|Africa. Up in the backblocks of new “dairymaid.--Renter.

British Empire Fair.

to Hong Kong)

der to enter the alleyway

killed!

"Ugwaida, mest right down to Southern Rates

75. MURDERS 80.

Helsingforrs.

Zamberi Wight in

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